- "The Hot-Houses Belonging To Henry
Atkinson, While In My Charge, Consisted Of Pinery, Stove And Orchid House.
In The
Pinery were grown specimens of the Providence, Enville, Montserrat
and Queen pines - a plant of the latter variety, in fruit,
Being exhibited
at the Horticultural Exhibition, Montreal, in September, 1852, the fruit
of which weighed between five and six pounds, tang the first pine-apple
exhibited of Canadian growth, but not the first grown at Spencer Wood, it
was noticed in the Illustrated London News. The following are the names
of a few of the plants grown in the stove-house: - Ardisia; Alamanda;
Amaryllis, Achimenes; Aschynanthus, Asclepias, Begonias, Crinums,
Centradinias; Calumnmas, Drymonias; Euphorbias, Franciscia; Goidfussia;
Gesneras, in twelve varieties; Gloxinias, in twenty-four varieties;
Gloriosa; Gardenias; Hibiscus; Inga; Ipomaea; Justicia; Lamandra;
Legastrema; Musa-Cavendishii, which we fruited - the only one fruited in
the province to this day, to my knowledge - the bunch of fruit weighed
ninety pounds; Maranta; Melastomas, Mennetties; Nymphas; Osbeekias,
Penteas, Passiflora; Peideum; Stephenotis, Streluzias; Russellea; Ruellea;
Rondilitia, Tabernaemonana; Tradescantia; Vinca; Clerodendrons, &c., &c.
In the orchid house, the following are a portion of the names of plants
grown be me: - Bletia; Bolbophyllum; Cyppripedium; Cymbedium; Catazetum;
Cattleya; Brassavoleas, Dendrobiums, Epidendrons, Aerides; Gongora;
Gomezia; Maxallaria; Oncidium, Plurathalis; Pholidota; Physosiphon;
Plurathalles; Peristerias, Ripsalis, Stanhopeas; Zygopetalum, &c., &c.
The houses containing the above were heated by hot-water pipes for
atmospheric heat and open tanks for bottom heat; they were the most
complete of the kind I have seen either in Canada or Great Britain - so
much so, that, during my stay with Mr. Atkinson, we used to produce for
Christmas and New Year's Day pine-apples, cucumbers, rhubarb, asparagus
and mushrooms, all in the same house."
[231] Mr. DeGaspe married, 1811, Susanna, daughter of Thos.
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